Independence Days

1. 2nd Birth, Regeneration, Reborn, Christian Birthday, when I got saved, the day I was justified by God, through Christ's imputed righteousness and the other names we may attach to the time when the Holy Spirit brought us into union with the Father and the Son.

God gave us independence or freedom from the sting of death, power of Satan, the curse of the law to be fulfilled for righteousness, idolatry of self and gave us independence or liberated us to justification by Christ's righteousness, fulfill the law out of our enjoyment of the Father and the Son by the Spirit not to gain righteousness, union with the Triune God and with other believers, an on and on we could go.

2. The Second Coming of Christ

When Christ frees us once and for all from the remnant of original sin that so wages war on our desires for enjoyment of God, and frees us to perfect loving, eternal union by the Spirit with our Triune God and all His children of every tribe, tongue and nation. There will no longer be tears of loss, for we are all found in Him.

There will be no more dark nights of depression, for the Light of God will fill all in all. We will not have faith in the products of sin, but a joy in GOD so intense that there will only be desires for Him. The slain Lamb standing will be exalted forever. The Father who governs His children with hesed (covenant loyalty) will be extolled eternally. And, the Spirit who keeps GOD's people in union with Him will be praised from age to age.

Glory in HIM today for your independence from self and independence to live in HIM.

NOTE: I consciously did not include "the rapture", aka the "secret coming". Also note that the great trumpet sound will coincide with the Second Coming.